Notes and Answers to Exercises

Biblical Hebrew: A Text and Workbook, by Bonnie Pedrotti Kittel, Vicki Hoffer, and Rebecca Abts Wright (Yale University Press, 1989)

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To hear the Lesson 1 sentence pronounced, click here.

NOTE: I've been having great difficulty making the SPTiberian Hebrew script appear properly on the web page, at least when there's more than just a couple of characters. Please let me know if the above Lesson 2 sentence looks like the Hebrew script in the book. If not, just ignore the above and read the lesson sentence from the book. I won't write out any more sentences until I get this resolved. Thanks for your patience!

To hear the Lesson 2 sentence pronounced, click here.

Lesson 2 workbook answers (my answers anyway; if you disagree or have a question, please EMail me!):

2.2	What kind of dagesh is in the y dagesh forte (1.2) b@ = 2 What kind of dagesh is this? dagesh forte (1.2)
2.3a	What is the initial wa vav conversive (1.3b)
2.3b	What is the y pronoun subject Form? prefix Person, Gender, Number? 3p m sg (1.3c, 1.4c)
2.3d	Root Stem Form Person/Gender/Number Special Features rbd Pi'el prefix 3ms vav conversive
2.4	What is the relationship of God to the verb? subject (1.6)
2.7	Root Stem Form Person/Gender/Number Special Features rm) Qal prefix 3ms vav conversive
2.8	Using the chart, and reading from right to left, translate: and he said (1.5)
2.10a	yni)j means I. hwhy means YHWH; Lord (1.1b)

Lesson 2 Translation Exercises (Read the Hebrew in the textbook p. 11):

listen 1. And YHWH said to him
listen 2. And YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron
listen 3. And Moses said to Aaron
listen 4. And a king said

To hear the Lesson 3 sentence pronounced, click here.

Lesson 3 Translation Exercises (Read the Hebrew in the textbook p. 14):

listen 1. And Abraham went
listen 2. And Elohiym spoke to Noah
listen 3. And he went to him
listen 4. And Isaac went from there
listen 5. And Solomon said

To hear the Lesson 4 sentence pronounced, click here.

listen 1. The king did not see
listen 2. The man spoke
listen 3. And king Jehoiakim listened/obeyed
listen 4. And YHWH did not speak
listen 5. And he sent to King Hezekiah
listen 6. And Abram went as YHWH spoke to him